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(No Model.) W. H. MYERS.

HYDROOARBON OIL BURNER.

No. 405,901. Patented June 25, 1889.

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' UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM H. MYERS, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN F. BARKLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

HYDROCARBON-OIL BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,901, dated June 25, 1889.

Application filed April 7, 1888- Serial No. 269,997. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern: or gas (as the case may be) generated from Be it known that I, \YI LLIAM H. MYERS, a the oil issues for ignition. In the lower end citizen of the United States, residing at Springof the tubular portion D is fitted, preferably field, in the county of Clark and State of by means of screw-threads, an oil-tube F,

Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful which extends through the tubular portion 55 Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Oil Burners, and terminates within the sphere-like porof which the following is a specification, reftion or retort proper, and to which at a suiterence being had therein to the accompanyable altitude within the said retort proper ing drawings. is connected a diaphragm G. The preferred This invention relates to certain new and form of diaphragm is convex on the upper 60 useful improvements in hydrocarbon oil side, while at the periphery it is serrated burners. or otherwise made irregular with respect The objects of the invention are to spread to the adjacent wall of the retort for the purthe oil in a thin sheet or film within a retort pose of affording passages to establish comfor the purpose of readily and quickly vapoiy munication between the upper and lower 65 izing it, and to automatically regulate the compartments of the retort, of which the diasupply of oil to the retort by an. automatic phragm constitutes the dividing-wall. The valve having also the function of cutting off function of the diaphragm is to receive the any back action due to a pressure in the reoil which flows gradually up through the tube tort in excess of the pressure of the oil sup- F and spread the same in a thin sheet or film, 7o ply to the retort. whereby it is more easily and quickly vapor- Another object of my invention is to proized. \Vhatever oil drops down from the diaduce a combined illuminating and heating phragm is subsequently vaporized, and the oil-burner, and so arranged as to perform one vapor, findin an escape through the burnerof these functions without performing the tips E issues therefrom and is ignited, as other. above intimated. An oil-supply pipe .H com- In the accompanying drawings, forming a municates with the oil-tube at one end and part of this specification, and on which like at the other with a suitable tank or oil-supreference-letters indicate corresponding parts, ply.

0 Figure 1 represents an elevation of an ordi- The letter I designates a deflector, which nary heating-stove with portions thereof reis circular and cup-shaped, so as to extend moved for convenience of illustration and of upward opposite the burner-tips and deflect myimproved burner mounted thereon; Fig. 2, the flames against the retort, so as to heat the avertical sectional view of the burner proper; same more intensely. At intervals the de- 3 5 Fig. 3, a detail sectional view of portions flector is provided with openings J, which, thereof on a larger scale; Fig. 4, a horizontal when placed opposite the burner-tips, as sugsectional view showing the interior in plan; gested in Fig. 5, allow the flames to proceed and Fig. 5, a sectional view of the burner, more directly toward the walls of the stove. showing the deflector in plan. From this it will be understood that the de- 3 The letter A designates a heating-stove of flector can be adjusted in a rotary direction 0 any of the usual or any approved types, upon to subserve this purpose. It is preferably the grate-bars D of which I mount my i1nmounted as seen in Fig. 2-that is, it is proved burner. This consists of a m etallie screwed upon the oil tube F and held between (preferably castiron) retort C, the preferred the tubular portion D and the oil-supply pipe' 45 shape of which is similar to a sphere, and the II. \Vithin the oil-tube, whose upper end is 5 lower portion of which is tubular, as seen atD fashioned to form a seat K, is loosely placed in Fig. 2. In the tubular portion I fit any 0011- a valve-stem L, having a flaring head M. The venient numbersay three or six-of burnerpressure of the oil on its way to the retort tips E, preferably made of brass and provided raises this valve-stem sufficient to admit the 50 with a small orifice through which the vapor required quantity to the diaphragm, whence IOO .upon gas-chandeliers.

it spreads and vaporizes in the manner already communicated. Should the pressure in the retort become in excess of that of oil, the valve-stem reacts and prevents any communication between the retort and the oilsupplya valuable feature looking to the safety of the device and entirely automatic. The cut-oft of the supply-pipe, as seen in Fig. 1, is regulated to admit to the oil-tube F only suflicient oil to raise the valve L and merely admit the oil to the diaphragm, and hence any pressure in the retort exceeding that of the oil, occasioned by a too rapid expansion of the vapor, will overcome the suspended valve and depress it. This is the operation that takes place in the practical use of this device, as I have ascertained by experience with it.

The letter O designates avapor or gas pipe rising from the retort and extending above the stove, where it is supplied with a burner pillar and tip P of the kind usually used A part of the vapor or gas generated in the retort can .thus be utilized for illuminating purposes. The pipe 0 may have several branches, or may extend in any required direction other than up through the stove, though it is preferred to conduct it more or less upward through the stove for the purpose of subjecting it to the superheating action of the flames arising from the fuel discharged from the ti s E.

Thus superheated the gas or vapor is ound to produce a clear white flame, excellently adapted to illuminating purposes. I contemplate using the burner proper, however,

. without the illuminating attachment in some of infiowing oil is gradually vaporized and then the amount of oil increasedto agree with the amount of heat required. After the parts become thoroughly heated, the amount of oil can be determined and the same heat maintained for any length of time. Such has been vice, it having been tested and ,used for domestic purposes.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an oil-burner, the combination,'with a retort having a cylindrical extension, of

burners in the vertical walls of the extension, 7

an oil-supply tube leading into the retort, and a deflector below the extension having openings or spaces formed in its outer edge, substantially as described.

2. In an oilburner, the combination, with a retort having a cylindrical extension and a valved oil-supply tube leading into the retort, of a curved diaphragm or spreader having serrated edges located within the retort, substantially as described.

3. In an oil-burner, the combination, with a retort having a cylindrical extension from its under side and a burner at its upper side and burners in the walls of the extension, of an oil-tube leading into the retort through the extension, a diaphragm or spreader secured on the end of the tube within the retort, and a deflector below the extension, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. MYERS. YVitnesses:

CHASE STEWART, J AS. H. MAHAN.

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